The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-16
ON 'CHAN6E.
HnmoAS Oil Trusts took q tumble

AMERi0AN Oil Trusts took q tumble
yesterday.
Or the b,0l9, 705 bushels Of wheat In
Liverpool on April lst, about $780, 900
bushels were California.
PrRoLxuM at New York yesterday
Yves ntagraat; sales 81 900 barrels.
Mining shares were dull.
MHMPBIs cotton sales for the past
week 5000 bales, OF which 1850 to ex.
porters and 1850 to spinners.
AT Cincinnati -four Ia drmer;
whest heavy; corn weaker; pork
easy; bulk meats and bacon Arm and
unchanged.
AT the New York dry goods market
yesterday In the general character Of
tho demand there was no change, but
a moderate business in motion.
ST. LOUIS cash corn up &c; May, 10 ;
cseh wheat closed at an advance OF 10,
and May ventura @; cash oats mp bo ;
polk, lard and clear ribs unchanged.
BALTIMORE grain market yesterday:
Rece,pts-Four, $3.50 barrels; wheat,
5000 bushels; corn, 1000 bushels
oats, 1000 bushels. Shipments
Flour, 1878 barrels.
VsIroRs on Change yesterday: L.
Leverirg, st. Louis; g. B. Jones aud
John Wright, Grenada, Miss; Misc
Florence r ,ese, Miss Mary A. Scott,
Pitisburg, Pa; James Ii. Reese, city.
CoTroN receipts at Memphis yester.
day, 1888 bales; shipments, 1873 bales
sAlea, $500 bales; stock on hand, S5,'
803 bales; total receipts to date, 6i9, 234
bales; total shipments to date, 6l0,2lf
bales.
Ar CHICAGO cash, May and June
poTk closed closed s $50 lower yesterday, Csst
lard went up 2ic. Dash and May
clear ribs advanced 25c, Cash corr
up TO-, CAsh wheat up tic, May ad
vapoOd 10. Cash and May oats un
changed.
WHRAr was firm at Liverpool yoster
day; demand fair. Corn was quiet
demand poor. Wheat receipts for tn,
: past three days, $4,000 centals, in
GLIDING III, 900 American. Receipt
American corn for the past three days
l08 500 centals.
A GENERAL meeting OF citizens will
: be held at the Merchants Exchange a
IL O'Clock this morning TO further con
slider the best means to be adopted il
order TO make known far and wideth
advantages possessed by Memphis rs
manufacturing point.
Coz ]. w. ELDRrDaR, lately mp
, pointed United States CONSUL to on
OF the interior towns Of Germany, II
Baxony, has been invited to addres
the meeting 10 be held at the Mer
ohants' Exchange this afternoon oil
. the subject Of immigration.
AZ the Stock Exchange Gall Boar
Yesterday the sales were ss follows
Ton shares Mercantile Bank stock q
143I; 10 shares Vanderbilt Insurance
Company stock ct zoe and 10 share
Of same at colo; 100 shares OF Missis
sippi and Tennessee railroad stock q
COS,
Ar the London wool sales yeSter
day the bidding was more animated
Home buyers finding prices main
tanned operated freely. Gross breed
and good merinos brought good prices
fsulty or low class did not realize sell
ers' expectations, and were occasion
ally Withdrawn.
THERE is a delegation Of gentlemen
here from Aberdeen, Miss, in the in
terest Of a branch railway from The
limo Of the Memphis, Birmingham
and Atlsntc raj road to their city,
distance OF about eleven miles. They
are prepared to show by means o.
facts ard figures the advantages tbs
proposed connection will be to Mem
phls. They will present their. views al
the Merchants Exchange aad citEent
: meeting 10 be held this afternoon,